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Muscle Building Tips for Women

Learn how muscle building for women differs from that of the general fitness population. Taking into consideration certain factors unique to female composition can lead to an effective muscle building regimen.

Female Physiology and Philosophy

Effective muscle building for women is similar in method to general muscle building with some special attention given to a womans unique body makeup and physiology. Lower levels of the anabolic hormone testosterone lead to muscle mass being harder to gain and maintain. Higher estrogen levels found in the female system lend to the body having a tendency to hold on to fat deposits which may hinder muscle building progress.

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Tags: Muscle Building, Women

An Interview With Tyler Shields – A Modest Celebrity Photographer Who Oozes Talent.

Are you familiar with the name Tyler Shields? I have to admit I wasn’t either until a few days ago. Like often on the Internet, I got distracted from reading my email. I was on AOL and a picture grabbed my eye. It was of Danny Trejo the main character of the movie Machete looking kind of crazy with blood spattered on the wall behind him. The story wasn’t about the movie Machete, but rather a photographer who blew up big in 2010. His name is Tyler Shields and my guess is that he will be a household name at some point in 2011. I was lucky enough to get a Q&A session with him…and he was gracious enough to let me post some of his work on my blog. I

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Gone in 60 Seconds: One Minute of Activity to Avoid Storing Calories of a Meal as Body Fat.

“Why didn’t I think of that!” This is exactly what I thought when reading this “hack” in Tim Ferriss’s new book, The 4-Hour Body. Instead of a book review, I would rather talk about a clever strategy Tim talks about on page 105-107. This is by far my favorite part of the book, because it really makes a lot of sense. I could see how this little tweak could make a difference over time when it came to gaining muscle and losing body fat.

[What if a brief exercise of 60-90 seconds, made it less likely that this dessert would get stored as body fat?

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Tags: Body, Meal Body

Become Superhuman – Nate Green and Tim Ferriss

On a lazy Saturday in 2007 I finished a book that was recommended to me by a close mentor.

Two hours later I had quit my job as a trainer at a health club, wrote a plan to open my own fitness studio and get into magazines, and booked a weeklong trip to Central America.

(My mom, understandably, flipped out.)

The book wasn’t the cause of my newfound adventure-seeking and impulse decision making; the desire to “do something” with my life had been brewing ever since I dropped out of community college, and I’d already taken the first few steps to live the life of my dreams.

But it certainly gave me a big shove to keep going.

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